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By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- To promote Catholic social teaching and ensureappropriate assistance to vulnerable people -- especially victims of war,refugees and the sick -- Pope Francis has established a new office combing theresponsibilities of four pontifical councils. In an apostolic letter given "motuproprio" (on his own initiative) and published by the Vatican Aug. 31, thepope said the new "Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development"will merge the pontifical councils for Justice and Peace, Cor Unum, Migrants and Travelers, andHealth Care Ministry. The pope named Cardinal Peter Turkson, current president of thePontifical Council for Justice and Peace, to serve as prefect of the new office, which will begin functioning Jan. 1.In his letter signed Aug. 17, the pope said,"This dicastery will be competent particularly in issues regardingmigrants, those in need, the sick, the excluded and marginalized, theimprisoned and the unemployed, as well as victims of a...
HONOLULU (AP) -- The number of savanna elephants in Africa is rapidly declining and the animals are in danger of being wiped out as international and domestic ivory trades drive poaching across the continent, according to a study released Wednesday....
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- The Latest on fallout from GOP Gov. Paul LePage's obscenity-laced tirade against a Democratic legislator (all times local):...
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Islamic State group's spokesman and chief strategist, who laid out the blueprint for the extremist group's attacks against the West, has been killed while overseeing operations in northern Syria, the group has announced....
SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP) -- The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century landed in the central city of Santa Clara on Wednesday morning, re-establishing regular air service severed at the height of the Cold War....
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton plans to address America's leadership in the world during a speech in the battleground state of Ohio, arguing that Republican nominee Donald Trump would undermine the country's greatness while she would maintain it....
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- President Enrique Pena Nieto awoke to a storm of criticism from Mexicans over his decision to meet Wednesday with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is widely reviled in Mexico for referring to its migrants as rapists and criminals....
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Donald Trump is making a quick trip to Mexico on Wednesday, meeting with the president of a nation he derided at the start of his White House campaign as a source of rapists and criminals coming to the U.S....
(Vatican Radio) In this week's edition of There's More in the Gospel than Meets the Eye, Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Twentythird Sunday in Ordinary Time. Listen: GOSPEL LK 14:25 - 33Great crowds were traveling with Jesus,and he turned and addressed them,“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother,wife and children, brothers and sisters,and even his own life,he cannot be my disciple.Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after mecannot be my disciple.Which of you wishing to construct a towerdoes not first sit down and calculate the costto see if there is enough for its completion?Otherwise, after laying the foundationand finding himself unable to finish the workthe onlookers should laugh at him and say,‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’Or what king marching into battle would not first sit downand dec...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis held his weekly General Audience in St Peter's Square on Wednesday. In his catechesis, the Holy Father relflected on St Matthew's Gospel account of the cure of a woman suffering from haemorrhages.Below, please find the official English language summary of Pope Francis’ catechesis for the General Audience for 31 August 2016:Dear Brothers and Sisters: In our catechesis for this Holy Year of Mercy, we now consider Jesus’ cure of the woman suffering from haemorrhages (cf. Mt 9:20-22). This unnamed woman, considered impure according to the Law (cf. Lev 15:29-30), trusted in Jesus’ mercy and saving power to free her from her illness and isolation. Filled with deep faith, she reached out and touched his garment. In Hebrew religious tradition, wearing such a garment was a symbol of being clothed with the divine Law, the source of blessing. The woman’s gesture of touching his garment is thus a f...
